I'm fortunate to not have to deal with this, but the excess security since 9/11 has always struck me as useless. If the terrorists wanted to attack again, they'd just say 'Airports are watching too closely for us, lets use the buses, subways, trains, and taxis.' not trying to give anyone ideas or anything, but airlines have to realize that the terrorists wouldn't take their ball and go home just because airplanes are closed to them. The logic of this tells me that there aren't constant threats. If there were, you'd have other public access vehicles blowing up all the time. Another way to look at it is to compare it to DRM. Punishing and inconveniencing all their paying customers in a feeble attempt to hinder the pirates who will just sidestep the effort and get what they want anyways.

I know you have a busy schedule, but I always look forward to the extra long Radio Free Burritos! .... I very nearly worded that in a very NSFW-sounding way ... c_c;